How can I stop having a regular correspondent always tagged as possibly spam?
Five days a week I receive some flash fiction from dailysciencefiction.com. Thunderbird always flags it as possible spam. This has been going on for years and I am tired of it, but I cannot find a way to correct the program's errors.
Chosen solution
At the top right of the Thunderbird window, click the menu button 
> Options > Security > Email Scams tab.
Uncheck 'Tell me if the message I'm reading is a suspected email scam'.
Note, this is an all or nothing switch, scam detection cannot be disabled for individual domains or senders only.
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Spam or Scam? they are very different, and I think in this case you are meaning Scam, without actually saying it.
You're right: It says "scam."
The scam detection is based on some simple but unchangeable rules. One of the triggers appears to be the presence of links to apparently unrelated sites. I don't think that the scam detection takes any notice of the "whitelisting" in Thunderbird.
You can turn scam detection off, but that's global. Whether or not this suits you is a decision only you can make.
Have you tried filtering these messages to their own folder? With a filter there is an option to apply the filter "before classification" which means specifically before the junk controls process the message. I'm not sure if this includes scam detection too.
Chosen Solution
At the top right of the Thunderbird window, click the menu button > Options > Security > Email Scams tab.
Uncheck 'Tell me if the message I'm reading is a suspected email scam'.
Note, this is an all or nothing switch, scam detection cannot be disabled for individual domains or senders only.